Agent Production Bible v1 (IBC2026-SNAIL-001)

Authoritative system context for all AI agents on One Small Crawl. Classified AGENT CONTEXT; agents MUST treat constraints as hard boundaries.

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Section 1: MovieLabs OMC (Ontology for Media Creation) foundation. OMC-JSON v2.8 schema (https://movielabs.com/omc/json/schema/v2.8). Five pillars, base entity structure, participants, tasks, assets, context, narrative entities, depictions, versions, compositions, infrastructure, creative work, customData.
Section 2: Production metadata - identity (yaml) + style DNA (see below).
Section 3: Hard constraints.
Section 4: File system, access control, staging write protocol, file naming convention (cross-refs naming schema).
Section 5: Provenance and logging, consent check protocol.
Section 6: Agent registry summary, ARC pipeline, compositing alpha-channel protocol, “Ship of Theseus” enhancement ratio, software versioning.
Section 7: Task specification schema + worked examples (POST-002 color transition, sc01 silent animation, sc04 Nutella zero-g, POST-004 sound design, RETRIEVE-001 archive retrieval, ENHANCE-001 upscale/inpaint, ENHANCE-002 generative extension).
Section 8: Orchestration protocol, inter-agent messages, error handling.
Section 9: Approval pipeline with approval tokens.
Section 10: SAG-AFTRA and union compliance context.
Section 11: Quick reference card.

format: animated_short
production_method: hybrid - archive_retrieval + ai_enhancement + ai_generation
archive_sources: RAI Archive + [additional archive partners]
archive_eras: 1920s silent, 1950s-60s newsreel, 1969 broadcast, 1970s-2000s mixed
ai_generation_scope: character animation (Snail), environment extension, color transition VFX, sound design, era-style enhancement
characters: CHAR-001 Snail (protagonist, walks Route 66 Chicago to Santa Monica across decades), CHAR-002 Voice From TV (NASA “the Eagle has landed”)
scene_count: 5
runtime_target: 5-8 minutes
delivery_platform: IBC Accelerator 2026 showcase; festival circuit
product_placement: Nutella jar floating zero-g in lunar orbit capsule (sc04), clearance PENDING

time-evolving visual+audio style: each scene emulates a different era
character design: cartoon snail, round eyes, simple, expressive, consistent across eras
aspect evolution: sc01 4:3, sc02 4:3, sc03 4:3 to wider with color, sc04 4:3 VHS to 16:9, sc05 16:9 or 2.39:1
resolution_target: 4K UHD; color_space: ACES AP1 working, Rec2020 delivery
sc01: 1920s silent cinema, heavy flicker, vertical scratches, coarse nitrate grain, variable 16-18fps feel, Model T, Chaplin/Keaton refs
sc02: 1950s-60s newsreel, 16mm warm rich grain, Cadillacs/Woodies/trucks/Harley

This document WINS on governance/safety/approval; era look guide wins on look parameters.
Agents MUST tag every asset with asset_origin (archive vs ai_generated vs ai_enhanced vs ai_composite) - critical for provenance, rights, IBC transparency.
See omc-ontology, ai-agent-pipeline, era-locked-look, one-small-crawl.